Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-04
LOCAL NEW s.
Brief Mention.


 Claim and Docket at Dorman's.
 Fred H. Waidron's family are summering at West Haven shore.
 w. H. Warner, the clothier, leaves to day for a three weeks vacation.
 Lawyer s. Isodore Bradley, of Washing ton, D. O., formerly of this city, is in town visiting friends.
 MT. Mallett, the hardware merchant, and family, occupy one of the Dr. Tyler cottages at West Haven shore.
 volney A. Blakeslee, of Winsted, caught thirty-fve black bass Monday. Many of them would weigh 1 11& pounds apiece.
 The rolling mill will not shut down until Saturday night as a new order is to be filled. It will then shut down in order that needed repairs can be made.
 Professor Kinks of Andover seminary and his bride (he daughter of President Clark of the Consolidated road). are spending few days at Brown6eld, Me.
 Professor and Mrs. Ladd have returned from Ohio, where they have been visiting Mrs. Ladd's mother, and are now at Ocean View, Washington county, R. I.
 About 100 Meridenites, including some in vited guests and the members of the St. Roses choir and the new collectors of the church, spent yesterday at Savin Rock.
 Mrs. Rosa Kamak has purchased the stock, good will, etc., of the 99 cent store under the Franklin House, Waterbury, heretofore run by B. P. Buck & O., of New Haven.
 The Good Samaritan Temperance society will bold their regular monthly business nesting tonight in Samaritans' hall, 73 Orange street. A full attendance is desired.
 P. McCurdy, who has for some time been in charge of the Western Union office in Bridgeport, has resigned and will enter the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio company in New Haven.
 In Woodbridge it was tremendously hot' in the middle of the day last week. A 101 degrees in the shade on one day. The evenings were, however, cool.
 Men at work in the fields near East Haven shore Tuesday had to stop work, the mos" quitoes were so numerous and savage East Haveners say the pests were mostly Long Island mosquitoes which had been blown across.
 John F. Ballentyne, a student of Anuon- dale college spending his vacation in Ansonia, is to have the charge of the Y. M. c. A. rooms there for the next six weeks, in place of Secretary Hill, whose resignation has been accepted.
 Paul Roessler is now ensconced in his new Chapel street store, No. 816, having removed from Church street, and the travelling public and stay at homes will find this the place to buy field glasses; the depot also for amateur photographers supplies. Manager Wall, who is summering in Guil- ford, was in town yesterday on short visit and said that never in his life did he see and feel so many mosquitoes as he encountered during the past week in Guilford. The children had to be kept home from school on account of the armies of the pests. Dr. William Woodruff of Thomaston, s3 years of age, met with a serious accident Saturday by an accidental fall among some rocks at the reservoir near his home. Dr. Carmalt of New Haven, who has been in at- tendance, says the injuries will confne MT. Woodruff to the bed for some time. Architect Brown, of New Haven, met the building committee of Pacific lodge Tuesday night at Morse Bros. store, and submitted for inspection the preliminary drawing for the new State street block. The plans and speci- fications will soon be ready, and then the work of building will go ahead at once.- Mariden Renuhlican